Devoid of Anything Useful

Much has happened since Tuesday. I'm going to blog by week cuz there is no time during the week.

I have left contact with the ground for longer than 5 seconds (more than 6 hours to boot)
Not too much of an experience, but I must say it is different.
I would just take it like an uber long bus ride, but with added stuff like the entertainment system is not bad, and the risk of dropping out of the sky.
This would also be my longest trip overseas so far, not with family to boot.

Achivements aside, day one (Mar31) was just an intro to the nice cold weather of Beijing (and temperate countries in general)
When I got off the plane, I wondered if the cool air-con like temperature there was heated or normal.
After this week, I bet it was heated. But at that time I did not know...
It was freezing cold after stepping out of the airport to board the bus.
The trip to the campus was rather long, and is nice how you can look in one direction and not see a building.
I knew the road directions were swapped, but I only conciously realized when I started taking videos.

After we got off the bus, it was king cold. While wating for luggage retreival, it was cake cold.
Everyone ran into the building rather quickly due to the cold wind. Did I mention it was cold?
After settling down in the dorm for a bit, we went off to the campus. Toured almost everything there.

On April Fool's, I stared at my feeds updating with all the technology pranks but could not really catch up.
Lolling at the people on Facebook was also fun.
Torrent speeds are good, much better than at home (excess of 20kbps compared to 5), so I was more than happy to leave my laptop in school to feed off the netz.
We went off to Beijing Planning Exhibition Center after lunch. Took the public buses.
Most of the buses are long, the entrance is in the middle, manned by a condutor who has tasks like making sure those without a card pay cash,
making everyone squeeze to have space, and to make some random announcements. Exits at the 2 ends, which everyone makes their way to.
It took about an hour (never felt it that way), and the exhibits quite zai lah.
Passed by Tiananmen Square on the way back, saw roflMao. Looks less grand somehow.
Online lesson left most people gaming, while I attempted to catch up with feeds and think of which compo to write

Mornings are spent drinking 3-in-One Nescafe, taking those vitamins, changing into uniform, and layering yourself.
It takes about an hour, mostly because the brain does not operate well at such temperatures.
I wake up at 5+ am, the sun rises at about 5.30am, I finish most of the stuff by 6+ and leave before 6.30am

On Thursday we joined in the Mass exercise for the first time. Everyone was either lolling or trying to catch up.
It was slightly harder than Hare Hare Yukai, mostly because I don't get to do a Frame-by-Frame study of it.
Then my PE was after that, and I opted soccer. We played with some local students and one angmoh international students.
We got pwned rather badly, but no one was truly owning.

Apparently we got caught up in science week, something like ISYF. There was something called Brain Olympics which was a quiz show.
Then also got some debate. Motion was "Building upon knowledge is more important than creating knowledge".

The Chinese Lit lessons are currently on Poems, whether she will do something else I dunno.
The Chinese Studies in Chinese was basically that, just with a different angle.

Friday was lessons as usual. There was the closing ceremony of the Science week. Rather grand socialist shit.

Saturday went Forbidden City. Big. Huge amounts of walking. Tian'an Gate not as grand as on TV.

Sunday went shopping. Got stuffs but no clothes or shoes.

Monday went Bird Nest. Looks smaller than on TV.

Tuesday having lessons then going Great Wall

Due to unforseen circumstances, I wrote this on Friday night but no internet to post until now.

By the way, I got some loot over here. Will show in the meantime